“And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.”
When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour — the seventh seal's opening produces not immediate catastrophe but silence (siōpē), a pregnant pause. The half-hour pause suggests limited duration and heightened anticipation; silence in heaven is extraordinary, indicating cosmic attention to what follows.
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